Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-04-06
DAKOTA NEWS.

--McCook county bridges are on the
float.
Hay is scarce in the vicinity Of Han.
cock.
-lGol. Steele. OF Steele, has patented
car heater.
Farmers are busy plowiue in the False
Bottom valley.
-Ex- Congressman J. J. Kieffer settles
permanently at Pierre.
The real estate boom 10 visiting Flan-
dtau with proAtabls tesults.
Aberdeen and Coiumbia have locked
horns in county seat contest.
Stone cutters in the quarries at Sioux
Falls earn from a to IS per day.
Lake county farmers arc going into the
business ~ faisifis blooded stock.
--Ths bnitarian church society Of Sioux
Fsilssars raising ! building fund.
! Territorial Auditor Ward expscts TO
| leave Sioux Falls for Bismarck IN Few
| days.
| An eastern capitalist also makes pro-
| position for str,et car franchise at Sioux
| Falls.
The Fargo Argus wants straight party
nom nations id .he coming munic pal cam.
paign.
--Milbnnk is on the lookout for fire.
hug who recently attempted to burn that
town.
r.. F:Pettigrew intends to put in sew
eral miles OF street railway at Sioux Falls
at once.
Stock f,ei is SO scarce in L,Moure
county 40 10 cause much concern to the
farmers.
GRANT co,inty reports large influx OF
settlers from Minnesota, illinois and
Sweden:
| Extensive buildings win be built at
Huron ty the Consolidated Tank Lin,
company.
-D. s. Glidden IS looked upon as the
coming warden Of the Sioux Falls pen
itentiary.
The Knights OF Labor intend to sup
port Charles Pollock for Mayor Of Fargo
at the coming city election.
The first writ Of assistance ever issued
by any court in the territory WAS issued
last Monday In Grand Forks.
Stock, both cattle and horses, along
the eastern side OF the Hills, seem to have
stood the winter in good shape.
Gen. II trison Allen is trimming bis
candidacy on the G. A. II. encampment to
meet at jam estown for the post of depart
ment commander.
The Columbia Dispatch makes it's ap-
pearance under the management Of Thomas
& Taylor, its former owners. They offer
it for sale.
Army leaves: Captain John B. Read,
Eleventh infantry, Fort Yates, twelve day s.;
Captain w. s. Elgerly, Seventh cavalry,
Fort Mead, thirty days.
The ground at Sundance has never
been frozen the past winter, being thickly
covered with snow. Consequently green
grass is abundant.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Barker, president Of
the Dakota W. C. T. T., who spent the
winter at Bismarck, is now lecturing in
North Dakota towns.
Rev. John Eastman, OF Flandrau, visi-
ted the Lower Brule agency last week and
in one day baptised eighteen Indians an !
married three couples.
The Watertown Telephone Company,
with H. r. Pease, President, and $52, COO
capital, will put in sev,nty-five exchange
circuit within a month.
The Unitarian society, Ct Sioux Falls,
are passing around Q subscription paper
with the object in view OF erecting q church
edi6ce with the proc ,eds.
Rev. Holp will elevate the standard OF
season lectures at the Baptist college at
Sioux Falls by intro luciny himself on
the topic OF "Rsd hair"
Prairie chickens are SO plentiful around
Sioux Falls that they crowd each other INTO
the city limits and occasional focks perch
on the residences on the hill streets.
Hiram Watrous, Of Washington, who
was caught out in blizzard and badly
frog last winter, had four OF lis fingers
amputated. Two more will probably hav.
to be removed.
There are already about four times as
many candidates as Offices to Hll in the
municipal election at Sioux Falls. Ths
places do not pay nickls in salary wh is
the positions give plenty Of work and critic.
ism.
Judge Mcconnell, Of Fargo, issued an
order detaching Cavalier county from Penn
bina. and making it separate judicial SUBJ
division. A term of court was ordered fos
Langdon, in the new district, September
next.
The opera House block at Fargo was
sold for $2S, 600, and again resold for e35,
900. It is rumored the last purchaser
were Marshall Field & Co., Of Chicago,
and that they intend establishing branch
house there.
Some CLARK county hunters chased
what they supposed herd Of elk over the
hills and through the valleys, and now the
owners Of the innocent sheep are dancing
behind warrants and demanding damages
for breaking the limbs of some blooded
ewes.
since the passage Of the Indian sever.
atty bill great many settlers are locating
On lands north Of American creek neaI
Chamberlain, on Grow creek reservation.
The general opinion is that bona-fl le set
tiers win not be disturbed, as large mn.
jority ofthe Indians have taken their lands,
leaving many thousand acres Of choice
farming lands for settlers.
Mrs. John p. Crennan, wife OF 4
prominent business man Of Yankton, died
at Toledo, Ohio, Of scarlet fever. She
left Yankton few days before with hel
baby to avoid the disease raging at thai
place. but the germs we're with her which
caused her death. Deceased was q sister
Of Ralph Wheelock, OF the Mitchell Re.
pablicam, and sister in-law Of ex.Secre.
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